Category: Mental Health
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Chronic Pain & The Effects on Mental Health
“Living with chronic pain is hard, but dealing with those who don’t care or understand is harder.” Unknown Chronic Pain Is More Than Just In Your Head I have lived with pain, chronic pain, for most of my life. As a child I experienced pain to where my legs would give out and my dad…
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You May Be In Depression If:
Disclaimer: I am not a licensed Pyschologist or Pyschiatrist. The things I am going to mention may, or may not be true for everyone. However, These are some signs that I have observed in my personal life that alerted my Mental Health Care Professional to diagnose that I was in depression. “We cannot selectively numb…
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Interview: Lance of The Veritable Counsel
This is the first interview of 2024 and I am hoping there will be many more. After I posted that I wanted to Bring Back The Interview, Lance of The Blog, The Veritable Counsel contacted me. I would ask everyone to take a moment or two and check out The Veritable Counsel. The Interview: Please…
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Mental Health Care: Battling Relapses
“Depression isn’t a war you win. It’s a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It’s one bloody fray after another.” ― Shaun David Hutchinson, “We Are the Ants” PsychCentral Winter is almost over, if you suffer with Seasonal Affective Disorder it can seem like everything is collapsing around you.…
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The First Steps
“The experience I have had is that once you start talking about [experiencing a mental health struggle], you realize that actually you’re part of quite a big club.” — Prince Harry Taking the first step in any situation seems like it is bigger than anything else. For example, the first time you place yourself on…
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Mental Health Care: Location
As in real estate, the same can be said about access to Mental Health Care; location, location, location. Mental Health Care In Crisis The Canadian Association of Mental Health writes: It’s a Global Problem, and We Are Not Immune According to the World Health Organization, around 450 million people currently struggle with mental illness, making…
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New Series: Mental Health Care, A Human Right?
Below is a map, from the website: The Atlantic. It shows the countries that have universal health care. The U.S. stands almost entirely alone among developed nations that lack universal health care. The Atlantic The World Health Organization declares: Mental health is a basic human right for all people. This week I saw a news…
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The Smile & What It Hides
We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden behind a smile, of the secret cares, struggles, and worries that shorten life and leave their mark in hair prematurely whitened, and a character changed and almost recreated in a…
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Holiday Seasons: Mental Health
“Christmas / holiday depression is like regular depression, but with added guilt because it’s supposed to be a ‘magical’ time of year and you want to feel it, but you just don’t.” – The Depression Project American Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mawlid al-Nabi, The Day of Ashura, and Hanukkah. It’s that time of year! The American Thanksgiving, and…
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Medication Compliance
I’m fine, but I’m bipolar. I’m on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I’m never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It’s like being a diabetic. Carrie Fisher Compliance, It’s a Daily Struggle! Every morning, afternoon,…
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Well Rounded Mental Health Care
In my past posts I have taken just a single part of the issues coping with mental health. Like every area of one’s life, mental health has to be well rounded. It entails, our mental health, one’s dietary, even what we listen to, reading material, sleeping habits, and so much more. For every individual mental…
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Food Insecurity & Mental Health
“The first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.” – Norman Borlaug, biologist and humanitarian. – Stephanie Lamm Proverb. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for…
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Stressed?
We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society – bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems. Sanam Saeed Phones,…
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In My Opinion – Call Me Woke
“At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.”― Elon Musk Maybe, just maybe, I may be an odd one out. I was born on the cusp of the baby boomer age. I have more years behind me then I…
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Fluidity
It’s okay to feel unstable. It’s okay to disassociate. It’s okay to hide from the world. It’s okay to need help. It’s okay not to be okay. Your mental illness is not a personal failure. (Unknown) In the last two decades I have learned that mental health is fluid. How I feel today does not…
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Fear, Turning The Tables!
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.“ – Josh Campbell -www.positivityblog.com Boogey man, we’ve heard as young children, afraid of going to sleep thinking he might be under the bed. As we grow older and begin to walk to school we are told about stranger danger. Never take candy from a…
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Attitude/Altitude
“It is your attitude, more than aptitude, that will determine your altitude “ – Zig Ziglar There is a saying, author unknown, “it’s hard to soar with the eagles when you have live in the barnyard with the turkeys”! There are those who will cross your path, who when they leave, will leave you feeling…
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Confidence, Shaken, not Stirred
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.-Mark Twain When I was in my teens I wasn’t full of confidence. I doubted myself and my abilities. Then, I was given a piano which started a wonderful adventure. I couldn’t wait until the rest of my family would go…
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Broken Femur
I could really use some good thoughts sent my way! I am writing this from a hospital bed in the emergency room. Last night I fell in my home and broke my femur. The fracture is just below where the hip replacement. I am waiting to be transported to Regina, SK to have surgery. This…
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Commentary:No Safe Place
“After another deadly weekend,mass shootings across the country,we know–oh, how we know–how high the stakes,how polarized the public:the desperation for liberty, equality, and justiceand the rage and backlash against it.”― Shellen Lubin This is not an article about the second ammendent of the USA Constitution, but rather an observance from someone who looks from afar. Nobody…
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Stress; Relief- Prt 2
“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.” – Paulo Coelho Winter, the first snowfall this year saw over eighteen inches on the ground. For many…
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Stress, Dealing With It – Part One
“Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.”― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive Stress, it is part of daily life! You feel it in your job, school, and even in the home. Since it is almost a daily thing, the…
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